Le haut d'un battant de porte (Birds Nailed to a Barn Door), 1852

Not on View

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

image: 27.8 × 38.5 cm (10 15/16 × 15 3/16 in.)
plate: 30.3 × 40 cm (11 15/16 × 15 3/4 in.)

sheet: 31.7 × 41.8 cm (12 1/2 × 16 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Beraldi, no. 110, State iii/iv

Accession Number

1944.8.5

Artists / Makers

Félix Bracquemond (artist) French, 1833 - 1914

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: in plate, in image, at lower right: FBracquemond / inv & fec / 1852; in plate, below image, at center: Le Haut d'un battant de porte.; in plate, below image, at right: Imp Delatre rue de Bievre 19 Paris; verso: at lower left, in graphite, in later hand: B 33566 B-4783 [upside down]; at lower right, in graphite, in later hand: FCO.

Marks and Labels

none

Provenance

(David Keppel, New York); purchased by Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, 1944; gift to National Gallery of Art, 1944

Associated Names

Keppel, David
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1995: Prints by James McNeill Whistler and His Contemporaries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.

2009: The Darker Side of Light: Arts of Privacy, 1850-1900, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; NGA; Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, 2009 - 2010

Bibliography

1885: Beraldi, Henri. Les graveurs du XIXe siecle, guide de l'amateur d'estampes modernes. 12 vols. Paris, 1885-1892: Henri. Les graveurs du XIXe siecle, guide de l'amateur d'estampes modernes. 12 vols. Paris: Librairie L. Conquet, 1885-1892.

1987: Bouillon, Jean-Paul. Félix Bracquemond, Le Réalisme Absolu: oeuvre gravé 1849-1859, catalogue raisonné, Geneva: Skira, 1987.